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Why an embarrassing exit might be good for England.

Like most England fans I was apoplectic on Friday evening at the standard of the performance it simply wasn’t good enough. Abject, turgid, disastrous, ponderous were just some of the words that sprung to mind to describe the performance. On the other hand I certainly wasn’t surprised at this. I knew England were not the side others seem to think it is, all the same the degree to which we played badly was shocking.

I spent a lot of time on the blower to various pals of mine that evening talking

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Football needs “socio” fan ownership.

Whilst this season has seen some fantastically unpredictable football, that has surely thrilled most fans, and certainly the neutral, for me the most striking thing that has been happening this season in terms of football has been the growing financial crisis.

Whilst this has been simmering under the surface for years it really seems to be coming to the fore, firstly with Conference side Chester City being wound up and expelled from the Conference to the soap opera that has been Portsmouth FC in the Premier League.

That well known clubs may

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Why I’m glad the English Clubs are out.

I guess there is going to be a fair amount of hand wringing in the press about the fact that noEnglish team is in the Semi-Finals of the Champions League. In fact just glancing at my RSS feed confirms this. But you know what, I am glad, I really don’t care and in fact I think it is actually a really good thing.

Firstly I have always had a bit of an issue with this idea of the “divine right” of our “big four” to not only always qualify for the

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The Pac-Man reigns, Formula One doesn’t

Well this weekend was a weekend of armchair sports viewing for me. And seeing as this is my blog I thought I would share my thoughts!

Pacquiao Versus Clottey

Last night Manny Pacquiao, who surely must now be rated as the Pound for Pound king, fought Joshua Clottey. Potentially something of a banana skin given the huge size differential between them. And whereas when Manny fought Hatton and Cotto he didn’t look that much smaller he really did against Clottey.

In fact is was guessed by those at ringside that Clottey weighed on

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Weekend in Bristol

Well to sort of test out my new blog I thought I ought to blog about something that really could not have appeared on my Union blog. So this will be my “What I did on my holidays” one….

So not a proper holiday, but as I has Friday off as annual leave I thought I would go to Bristol to stay with my brother. I had a few priorities, these centred around wanting to eat nice food, and bake a cake….. I know what a hellman I am eh?

So anyway first order

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